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ToddB proposed to me that I do an experiment so to speak. In which case I would take Folic acid vitamin tablet once a day for 6 months and measure the hair growth.And then take regular adult multi vitamin for 6 months and compare results.
I ran into some controversy with this topic though.
Katherine said. "The reason people say that prenatal vitamins increase hair growth is because pregnant women take them and have fast hair growth. But the hair growth of pregnant women is the result of pregnancy itself and its hormones. Prenatal vitamins are a waste of your money.
By the way, the B vitamin people take for hair growth is biotin, not folic acid."
The other side of this is here" http://www.choisser.com/longhair/two.html"
and i qoute..."...So the option, if you are not getting enough vitamins for your hair, will probably be to take pills. But how are you to know if you aren't getting enough of these vitamins in your diet already? One way to decide is to ask yourself whether you are happy with your growth rate and the ampleness of the scalp oil in your hair. If either of these things are lower than you would like, you might want to consider a dietary supplement.
Regular vitamin pills, which give you doses in the 100% range of the government estimates of requirements, will make up for vitamin deficiencies caused by dieting. If you're eating normally though, your diet probably has you in that range of intake already, and it may do your body fine, but the government is not interested in your hair. To really benefit your hair, if your diet is not already doing the trick for you, you will need pills that pack a heftier punch.
Brace yourself. Just as you'll learn with hair ties and such, these vitamins you'll discover are mostly marketed to women. They may be baby pink in color and in jars that have "female" written all over them, but take the pills anyway, dude. They won't turn your hair baby pink. Pills that longhairs have reported success with include these:
Prenatal formulations. These are designed for pregnant women, but they have many of the vitamins for hair in ample quantities.
Specific "for hair" formulations. GNC sells a series of vitamins called "Nourish Hair". Natrol makes a product called "For Women - Skin Hair Nails", which longhairs have reported not only speeds hair growth but also increases oil production while reducing scalp itchiness..."
So the question is, or i should say are: Does folic acid help with hair growth? OR is it "biotin"?
Im really interested in this topic and am going to be conducting this experiment over the next 2 years perhaps. Any specific way i should go about doing this ? Advice from you guys would be greatly apreiciated. Thanks and much love to everyone on the board.Peace-Dustin
Hey I like your pic.. I read a post a ways down that you had a "reverse mullet" up until june do you have any pics you could post before you got it trimmed when it was past your chin..
